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Quotes About Logic

He was the most persuasive speaker, less for his words than character behind them. He made every listener feel he had done his best to master every aspect of this question, who has been driven by logic to arrive at certain conclusions, and who is disguising from us no argument on either side.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Every logical act of the intellect is an assertion that something is.
~ baring gould sabine ix
Reason starts from itself to return to itself.
~ baring gould sabine viii
The God of reason cannot be the object of religion.
~ baring gould sabine viii
I know a logic beyond time and space; that is why I am so illogical, why space cannot hold me nor time make me old.
~ barker elsa iii
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Reason is no match for passion.
~ Baruch Spinoza
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
~ Baruch Spinoza
men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.
~ Baruch Spinoza
The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things
~ Baruch Spinoza
Il est contre le bon sens de mettre une enveloppe précieuse à des choses de néant ou de peu de valeur.
~ Baruch Spinoza
in the case of the given numbers 1, 2, 3, everybody can see that the fourth proportional is 6, and all the more clearly because we infer in one single intuition the fourth number from the ratio we see the first number bears to the second.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
~ Stephen Hawking
The law is reason, free from passion.
~ Aristotle
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
~ Samuel Adams
Mathematics is the music of reason.
~ James Joseph Sylvester
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
~ Charles Baudelaire
You cannot reason with delusion.
~ Rachel Lindsay
Have a very good reason for everything you do.
~ Laurence Olivier
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
~ David Hume
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
~ Immanuel Kant
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
~ Norman Cousins